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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: A small pill has played a major part in the current opioid crisis.
Chapter 3: Morphine’s long history stretches back a very long way.
Chapter 4: Beginning in the 1980s, ideas about treating pain underwent a fundamental revolution in America.
Chapter 5: During the 1990s, pill mills spread quickly across the American Rust Belt.
Chapter 6: The small Mexican village of Xalisco has had a massive impact on millions of American lives.
Chapter 7: The Xalisco Boys quickly expanded into new markets throughout the United States.
Chapter 8: The Xalisco Boys’ marketing approach proved crucial to their ultimate success.
Chapter 9: The pain revolution crowned opiates winners — prescription became the norm.
Chapter 10: Eventually, a few people noticed the rising opiate abuse, and a backlash against opiate prescriptions soon followed thereafter.
Chapter 11: Virginia saw the first major criminal case against the opiate manufacturers brought forward there.
Chapter 12: It took time, but victims of the opioid epidemic finally began speaking out.
Chapter 13: The pain revolution has proved misguided — now the path to recovery has truly begun.
Description
Dreamland (2015) tells the story of how the opiate crisis in the United States went from being a problem only among social outcasts and the urban poor to one of the leading causes of accidental deaths in the country. The background and science of the crisis are rooted in socioeconomic factors that are distinctly American.
Who Should Listen
- Non-Americans left nonplussed by the United States’ opiate problem
- Health care professionals
- Policy wonks